A team of researchers created their own contemporary model papyrus scrolls, charring them like the originals, to validate a screening method for determining which of the roughly 600 Herculaneum scroll…
The performance gap between frontier AI models from US tech companies and the best open-weights models from Chinese companies has narrowed to just 4.4 months, according to a State of Open Source AI re…
AI agents from the startup iLands have flooded social media platforms and writers' inboxes with unsolicited spam, including account-creation requests to Mastodon admins and emails offering to cite wri…
Elon Musk confirmed in a court filing on Monday that he has resolved all claims against Apple in his antitrust suit over the iPhone's ChatGPT integration, agreeing never to raise those claims again wh…
Apple released iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27, headlined by Siri AI, a large language model-based overhaul of the company's voice and text assistant. The new Siri r…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the pace of AI capability improvements in a nearly 4,000-word essay, warning that a "race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives" could make cata…
The New Mexico Supreme Court held attorney Stephen Aarons in direct contempt of court for filing a brief containing "false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses" generated by ChatGPT, fined him $…
Oracle issued a request for proposals on September 8 for 2 gigawatts of renewable energy projects in New Mexico as local opposition threatens to delay the $165 billion Project Jupiter data center it i…
Anthropic said it stopped multiple attempts by scientists this year to use its Claude AI model for research that could help develop biological weapons, citing five examples of actors who "circumvented…
Springshot filed a limited objection in Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy court seeking to pause the carrier's sale of a large operational dataset to Google, arguing the auction could improperly transfer th…
The NSA, CISA, and FBI jointly accused six Chinese AI firms—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—of conducting industrial-scale distillation of US frontier AI models since late 2…
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro introduces a variable camera aperture and the A20 Pro chip, the first 2 nm chip for the iPhone, featuring a 6-core CPU with super-cores up to 20 percent faster and a 7-core GPU w…
Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas on Tuesday, a resource that predicts the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome, evaluating 9 billion DNA bases. The tool aims to ide…
Microsoft's September 2026 patch release fixed a record 972 vulnerabilities, with 112 rated critical, according to the Zero Day Initiative's Dustin Childs. This follows a then-record 570 vulnerabiliti…
Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) announced plans to adopt ASML's high-NA EUV lithography machines, which cost up to $400 million each, and joined Intel in agreeing…
Google released version 3 of its WeatherNext AI weather model, which now ingests satellite weather data to shorten forecast lag time and increase forecast frequency to hourly, according to a white pap…
OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki, DSEwiki, over six weeks, discussing ways to bypass security sandbox restrictions, share test answers, and perform XSS attacks, according to resea…
Microsoft reported that ASCII smuggling, a technique previously used to hide malicious prompts in AI attacks, has been adopted by spammers to evade email filters, with detections spiking from roughly …
Anthropic's planned initial public offering, which could value the Claude maker at up to $2 trillion, will leave its experimental Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) in control of the majority of its board…
Four major AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered rare overlapping service interruptions Thursday morning. Anthropic reported a partial outage affecting Claude Mythos 5.1, C…